Just and FYI on NVENC encoding times based on version of FFmpeg

[Ronald J Kienle]

For the longest time I could not use any version of ffmpeg since 5.0 because my encodes would fail at some point so I have continued to use 4.4.1 essentials as it works. Today I installed the latest version of Batch AV Converter and simply let it run with the latest version of ffmpeg and all four of my encodes completed fine...but I thought I noticed it was slower.

So I ran the same files back through again with 4.4.1 essentials once again and yes....I was not mistaken. With the older version of ffmpeg I had between 17 and 20% faster encodes of the exact same files that resulted in files of the exact same size for all files tested so the output seems to be the same, but the speed is much better....so I am stepping back to 4.4.1 essentials because the quality is the same but much faster.

This is a modest system....an old i5 4690K 20 Gbs of RAM and an old 1650 Super for graphics. Your mileage may vary but it is probably worth some testing if you are like me and have encodes going all the time trying to catch up.

[Ronald J Kienle]

With the latest release that contains ffmpeg 6 essentials my encodes are now faster by 10-20% depending upon the input file but all are faster.